ART AFICIONADO: Roos van Montfort

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Roos van Montfort

Model Appreciation

Roos van Montfort was born on November 29, 1989, in Geldrop, a quiet town in the southern Netherlands. She described her childhood as calm, peaceful, and surrounded by greenery—so quiet, in fact, that she eventually felt ready for something bigger.

Standing 5'9½" with blonde hair and brown eyes, she always sensed she wanted to see more of the world. That urge pushed her abroad early. Through an exchange program, she spent short stretches in California, Florida, and Barcelona before returning home and deciding she was “done” with Holland. She soon moved to London, then New York, setting the foundation for her modeling career.

Her career began in London when she signed with an agency at 20. Four years later, she reached a career milestone as Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for January 2014—the magazine’s 60th-anniversary centerfold, photographed by Sasha Eisenman. She has since continued modeling for Playboy Plus and other platforms.

In interviews, she called becoming a Playmate “the coolest thing” she had done, a small but meaningful place in the brand’s long history. Roos embraced the travel and pace of modeling, describing New York as a city full of energy, but she often hinted that California felt like the place she ultimately wanted to live.

Her personality, humor, and candor made her stand out. She preferred “real guys”—a bit messy, beer-drinking, sports-watching—rather than men who spent more time in front of the mirror than she did. She admitted she rarely checked out men, but she loved checking out women, joking about her “girl crushes.”

She talked openly about juggling a few short-term relationships during her “New York experience,” and she balanced nightlife with a focus on health, using detox routines to maintain her skin and energy for work. Driven, playful, and unfiltered, Roos built a career shaped by curiosity and ambition, always chasing the next place, the next opportunity, and the life she imagined for herself.

Beyond modeling, van Montfort has expressed ambitions to live in California, to become a Bond girl, to own her own business and build a family. She has shared playful personal interests—from taking belly-dance classes inspired by Shakira to using her secret apple-crumble recipe as a way to charm at dinner.